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There's a long-running debate among journalists regarding Family Circus cartoons. The aw-shucks, ain't-that-just-precious comics are either helping to sell newspapers or killing them slowly with cornball cuteness. After all, this is the era of subversive television cartoons like "Family Guy," but...

Yesterday, worldwide users of Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Google's Blogger, and YouTube faced problems accessing their accounts. This morning, they got a partial answer as to why: The sites were down due to a massive cyber attack that was apparently meant to silence a political dissident or...

Nestled south of Boulder, Louisville is the No. 1 city in America, according to Money magazine, in part because it is uncluttered by hordes of "pretentious eco-hipsters." The magazine praises the down-to-earth side of the city---amenities like the cozy Waterloo Ice House and a Friday-night street...

Lately, the letters to the Vail Daily about the newspaper's coverage of home burglaries in Edwards have been hot and angry. "It sounds a lot like one of Joseph Goebbels' finer works of propaganda," one reader wrote. As the Daily notes in its own coverage of the controversy, some readers were...

It seems the same disease that's killing off newspapers has now spread to the radio business. Commercial and public radio stations in Colorado are struggling and cutting back to save money, as people increasingly use their computers and mobile phones for information and entertainment. Yesterday,...

Women who work for Focus on the Family can ditch the dresses and pantyhose if they want. The Colorado Springs-based evangelical Christian organization has relaxed its "Leave it to Beaver"-like dress code so that the ladies may now wear Hillary Clinton-style pantsuits and the men can skip the...

An estate sale of sorts has begun, as groups pick over the belongings of a Denver institution: the Rocky Mountain News. E.W. Scripps, the company that owned and shuttered the Rocky earlier this year, has finalized an agreement that will send the newspaper's archives to the Denver Public Library and...

Text messaging, blogging, e-mailing, and tweeting are a rising a concern in Colorado's courtrooms, and judges are starting to crack down by warning jurors that Twittering their thoughts can lead to a mistrial, writesÂ 9News, which notes that even Colorado news reporters are facing the...

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The American Society of Interior Designers' (ASID) Colorado Chapter decorated the Governor's Residence for the holidays. Holiday tours, free and open to the public, will take place December 8-11 and December 15-18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All photos by Sarah Boyum